[ExI] genetics

[William Flynn Wallace]

Pigs are rated very high in IQ.  I took a pig brain out in grad school and
it resembled a smaller human brain with lots of convolutions.  They also,
like cats, are difficult to train.  I'd like to know if a video version of
PHotoshop was used to make that commercial where a cat fetches a stick from
a lake, digs a guy out of the snow, and so on.  If not, there must have
been a lot of training, esp. overcoming the cat's fear of water.  I did
read a story by a researcher who trained a dog.  It was watched by a cat,
who proceeded to do what the dog learned.  Observational learning:  said to
be 'monkey see, monkey do', but in fact monkeys do not learn well this
way.  So when the cat did, it was news.   bill w

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 9:54 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 15:05, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > How come Mother Nature created the immense amount of differences among
> people?  People have IQs as low as 60 and as high as 220 or so with no
> discoverable physical reasons.  Other skills similar.
> >
> > But mainly I want to know:  is there this amount of diversity among any
> animal groups?  I, and probably most people, think of animals like bears or
> chimps as being much the same, but it would seem that they aren't, but I
> have no data.   bill w
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> Any dog owner will tell you that some dogs are smart and some really
> stupid.
> Border collies and poodles are *really* smart.
> Cats also have a range of IQ. Siamese cats are about the smartest.
> Hard to tell though, as cats are smart enough to not co-operate with
> researchers' games trying to test them.  :)
>
>
> BillK
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